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Originally posted by hellocory
I never said she was as big as RIH was at her debut. But Rihanna's first album fit the sound of what was hot at the time. The dancehall/pop/slight R&B sound was big at the time Rihanna debuted. Tinashe is making 90s R&B/experimental R&B at a time when dance music is dominating.
For as big of a star Rihanna is, and with how much single success she has had, her album sales are poor. Rihanna is arguably one of the biggest artists of all time in regards to single success.
Good Girl Gone Bad = pop
Loud = pop
Singles from TTT = pop
Unapologetic is her most urban influenced album and even that has a couple straight up pop songs.
We're aware Tinashe is not on Rihanna's level. The question is can she be? Did people expect Iggy to become as big as she is? Katy Perry? Nope. All it takes is one smash single and some star power, which Tinashe has plenty of.
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How was dancehall big in 2005 when pon de replay was the first top ten dancehall hit that year?
Or when the only other dancehall hit peaked at number 4 the previous year?
Urban was the trend in 2005 not dancehall
Moreover TTT is more urban than pop, Do Ya Thang, Roc Me Out, Farewell, WAWL, watch n learn, Red Lipstick. The pop songs there are mostly WHYB and WFL.
Dance music isn't dominating at the moment
Urban did make a comeback this year and 2 on would have hit if done by Rih or Bey, DiL peaked at no.2 remember?
Stop trying to justify Tinashe's underperformance as to her being able to make it out big, I wish her all the best, she's young, beautiful and talented but at times that's not all it takes, anyway I wish her well.
P.S GGGB, LOUD, TTT all had urban influences despite them being pop albums so Rih still didn't start doing urban with unapologetic, get your facts right
And selling over 3.5M in this album sales state is poor?
Then I guess all our faves except Adele, Taylor and P!nk have poor album sales